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Beijing +20: Review of progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action in Pacific Island countries and territories
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
In the lead-up to the Beijing Conference, the Pacific Islands region adopted the Pacific Platform for Action (PPA). Its purpose was to identify regional issues and priorities within those...
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Rio+20: Important Issues for Pacific Island Women
The Pacific Community (SPC) Publications
Pacific Islands Forum Leaders have acknowledged the importance of gender equality through the Pacific Plan and in various Forum Communiqués. The purpose of this brief is to draw the...
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The Big Nine, your one-stop-shop for human rights conventions is online
SPC Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) Publications
This publication is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for international human rights conventions and other related documents. It is designed to be a reference for judges, magistrates, legal...
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A Measure of the Future: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Risk Index for the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
The reproductive risk index ranks 21 of the 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) according to ten key sexual and reproductive health and rights indicators. In doing so, the...
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Pacific Girls Speak
Pacific Women Lead Video
Adolescent girls in the Pacific face challenges because they are girls; and they can also be discriminated against for other reasons, such as having a disability or getting pregnant. In...
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Population and Development Profiles: Pacific Islands Countries
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report contains population and demographic data and development profiles for 15 Pacific countries. Four of these countries (Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) are...
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About Pacific Girl
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This document provides details about the Australian Government’s investment in supporting adolescent girls in the Pacific. It includes information about: The funded implementing partner’s...
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I Am Not A Lost Cause: Young Women’s Empowerment and Teenage Pregnancy in the Pacific
Pacific Women Lead Publications
This report focuses on the experiences of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood. It highlights the challenges that adolescent mothers face when pregnant and as mothers. Over the last...
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State of the World’s Population Report 2013: Motherhood in Childhood
United Nations Population Fund Publications
Every day, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth in developing countries. Births to girls also occur in developed countries but on a much smaller scale. Most of the world’s births to...